A POLICE officer has been disciplined following a report into the circumstances surrounding the death of a teenager after a high-speed crash.

A POLICE officer has been disciplined following a report into the circumstances surrounding the death of a teenager after a high-speed crash.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission carried out an investigation into the smash which claimed the life of Mathew Daniels.

They found that an officer who attended the incident made inappropriate comments at the scene.

Seventeen-year-old Mathew was a rear seat passenger in an Audi when it crashed into a lamp post and bus shelter on Simonsway, Wythenshawe, in the early hours of April 6.

Tolerance

Shortly before the crash the Audi had been seen by officers being driven erratically. An unmarked police vehicle travelling in the opposite direction had turned around and began to follow the car before it careered of the road.

The investigation found that one officer made inappropriate comments at the scene about one of the occupants of the Audi, which breached the Code of Conduct for Police Officers with regard to tolerance and politeness.

A spokesman for GMP said: "The officer involved in the case has received constructive advice from a senior officer about his conduct."

The driver of the Audi, Ryan Dunwoody, was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving and sentenced to four-and-a-half years.